Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

Circular diagram showing past and present environmental conditions in Interior Alaska. Source: Community Partnerships for Self-Reliance program

Adapt Alaska

Decision-makers and educators in Alaska can use these resources as a starting point in climate adaptation, mitigation, and monitoring. Find case studies, information on specific regions in Alaska, a planning guide for adaptation, and more.

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Community members can explore how past and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems and generate a report to inform planning efforts.

AdaptMap Jamaica Bay

This online mapping tool for New York's Jamaica Bay allows users to compare and contrast historical, present day, and potential future landscapes against an array of sea level and storm tide scenarios.

AgBiz Logic

Farmers, ranchers, and land managers can use this suite of digital tools to aid in economic, financial, and environmental decision making.

AgroClimate—Tools for Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture

Interactive tools and climate information provide support to improve crop management decisions and reduce production risks associated with climate variability, climate change, and extreme weather events in the southeastern United States.

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Alaska Community Inundation Maps

Color-indexed elevation maps for flood-vulnerable coastal communities in western Alaska.

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Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans

Organizations that manage environmental resources can use this guide to prepare a broad, risk-based adaptation plan.

Cal-Adapt

California residents and city and county planners can identify potential climate change risks in specific areas throughout the state and access easy-to-understand resources for local planning efforts.

Chucktown Floods: Adapting to Flooding in Charleston

Local resources to help people monitor and adapt to flooding in the Lowcountry of Charleston County, South Carolina.

Climate Change Adaptation Planning Manual for Coastal Alaskans and Marine-Dependent Communities

Planners in coastal Alaska can use this guide to help with local adaptation efforts.

Climate Change Resilience Roadmap

Federal, state, and local entities can follow this roadmap to develop regional climate change and national security action plans. The tool offers guidance for regions to convene multi-jurisdictional working groups and work collaboratively toward tangible outputs.

Climate Change Resource Center

Natural resource planners, land managers, and other decision makers can find usable science as well as approaches to adaptation and mitigation from the U.S. Forest Service to help them address climate change impacts.

Climate Change Response Framework

This collaborative, cross-boundary approach among scientists, managers, and landowners incorporates climate change considerations into natural resource management.

Climate Change: Ecosystem Considerations

This website is a resource for fishing industry stakeholders, researchers, and the interested public, providing an introduction to climate change science, a summary of pertinent research, and climate change impacts on the fishing industry.

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Coastal Community Resilience Planning Guide — Louisiana

Small groups can use this 20-page guide to get started on the process of building resilience for their community.

Coastal County Snapshots

Select a coastal county and explore summary snapshots describing its flood exposure, wetland benefits, or economic benefits from ocean jobs. Communities access these reports to benchmark current conditions and identify opportunities for building resilience.

Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper

Explore local maps to stimulate discussions about the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. Create a collection of maps showing risk from various hazards.

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Coastal Flood Impacts for the City of Boston

Visualize flood impacts while planning and preparing for—and responding to—current and future coastal storms in Boston, Massachusetts.

Coastal Flooding, Climate Change, and Your Health: What You Can Do to Prepare

Geared to the general public, this booklet identifies steps people can take to prepare for the health risks associated with coastal flooding.

Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore coastal flood risk and sea level rise projections for nearly any coastal location in the world. Users can adjust variables such as decadal year, water level, pollution scenario, sea level rise model, and elevation data. También disponible en Español.

Community Health and Resource Management (CHARM)

This interactive, multi-layer visualization platform helps planners picture different future scenarios.

Community-Based Climate Adaptation Toolkit

Marine managers can find resources to engage communities in their efforts to manage, protect, and restore coral reefs and reef fisheries around the world.

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Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) Tool

Communities can use this downloadable application to prepare for a water service interruption before an emergency occurs.

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Convergence of Climate Health Vulnerabilities

This website provides information and tools to help address climate-related health impacts in the Carolinas.

Data Basin

Diverse collaborative groups can use this mapping and analysis platform to support environmental stewardship projects. The platform enables citizens, students and educators, natural resource practitioners, and scientists to visualize, draw, comment, and discuss aspects of their project.